Hello Fedi friends,
I'm currently planning my written tutorial for #YunoHost - from the POV of a newbie.
The guide will have a simple but ambitious goal: to encourage non-technical people to try self-host their own #NextCloud instance... and show them that it's something accessible to all, thanks to the wonderful YunoHost.org
I have tried other similar tools and YunoHost IMHO is simply the best and most secure solution. I've been using it for 11 months now and I have ZERO complaints. It just works... and it's effortless.
I'm thinking of splitting my written tutorial in a 3-part series... because doing everything in one go for a non-technical person could be overwhelming.
Part 1: registering a domain name and signing up for a VPS*
* yes I know technically you could forgo a domain name but I think having one is more empowering long term... and I'd go the VP
... Show more...Hello Fedi friends,
I'm currently planning my written tutorial for #YunoHost - from the POV of a newbie.
The guide will have a simple but ambitious goal: to encourage non-technical people to try self-host their own #NextCloud instance... and show them that it's something accessible to all, thanks to the wonderful YunoHost.org
I have tried other similar tools and YunoHost IMHO is simply the best and most secure solution. I've been using it for 11 months now and I have ZERO complaints. It just works... and it's effortless.
I'm thinking of splitting my written tutorial in a 3-part series... because doing everything in one go for a non-technical person could be overwhelming.
Part 1: registering a domain name and signing up for a VPS*
* yes I know technically you could forgo a domain name but I think having one is more empowering long term... and I'd go the VPS route because it's the most headache-free for a newbie. I can do the whole thing in 12 minutes with a VPS... and experienced headaches with a Raspi. I think for a total newbie the VPS is the way to go... especially if we factor in security issues. The stakes are lower
Part 2: installing YunoHost and tweaking DNS settings (assigning domain for NextCloud and creating a subdomain for YunoHost admin stuff, etc.)
Part 3: installing NextCloud (which people voted for when I asked which app I should install in my tutorial) and seeing what it can do.
Thoughts?
Is a 3-part series overkill or ok? I'd like to encourage people to set aside 30 minutes a day for this, so that the whole thing is not too overwhelming.
Eager to hear what you think about this!
P.S.: tangentially related but ICYMI: my Ghost blog is now federating thanks to MagicPages.co. You can follow it here: @ele
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Julio J. 🀲
in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •wow, just yesterday I did that and was asking the fedi what cool things one could do with jailbroken kindle.
So far I've found this page
github.com/KindleTweaks/Awesom…
What cool things do yo plan to do now with them now that they're jailbroken? I'm looking for inspiration 😀
GitHub - KindleTweaks/Awesome-Kindle: An Awesome List of Kindle Tweaks
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in reply to Julio J. 🀲 • • •thank you for the awesome link!
I just did it to be able to add e-books from any kind of store (not just Amazon) and have my own custom screensavers.
No advanced modding for now, just the simple stuff 😊
Irwene
in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •To be fair, you could add boks from any store already, you just had to convert them to a supported format (which, granted, is hard if the books you try to convert come with DRM).
Calibre (a neat little library management software) does many thing, and one of them is converting ebooks. And it supports outputting ebooks in the two format supported by kindles (azw3 and mobi)
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in reply to Irwene • • •John - 🎞️ Film Nerd 🎞️
in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Ethan Sholly
in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂
in reply to Ethan Sholly • • •aw yes! but a little confession: I moved my Ghost blog to Magic Pages so that I don't have to get a full education of how to do Docker. It was just beyond my sphere of comprehension (and Magic Pages is CHEAPER than Mailgun + a VPS plan).
Now with that big blue whale off my back I can turn my curiosity elsewhere... like: FreeBSD for example 🤗
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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂
in reply to 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 • • •Derek Caelin is writing a book
in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂
in reply to Derek Caelin is writing a book • • •YES! And old Kindles with buttons are THE BEST IMHO! I have a case with built in light to make up for the lack of backlight...
I had purchased a newer Kindle in 2022 that died on me within a year (rough treatment by my then toddler). But I had never taken a liking to it because of the lack of buttons and the need to swipe the edge of the screen to turn the page.
Now I'm just glad to have these 13+ year old Kindles with buttons to play with. The battery life on both is still great 😀
Derek Caelin is writing a book
in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •I finally found that old kindle and used WinterBreak to jailbreak it. It's bruised and battered but now runs KOReader! Thanks for the tip.
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in reply to Derek Caelin is writing a book • • •